ISBN: 1235858324

[EAN: 9781235858321], Neubuch, BOOKS GROUP,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free… Plus…

[EAN: 9781235858321], Neubuch, BOOKS GROUP,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: . . . clad in a blue cloak, and with a slouched hat on his head, and bare a bill in his hand; and he came against Sigmund the King, and have up his bill against him, and as Sigmund smote fiercely with the sword it fell upon the bill and burst asunder in the midst. 22 Now this one-eyed man is beyond all doubt none other than Odin. Not only is there a special myth recounting how Odin lost an eye, surrendering it in a pledge to Mimirs well in return for the gift of wisdom, 23 but elsewhere there is mention of Odin concealing his face with his hat when he would go into battle; and another tale tells how the first evening that King Olaf Tryggvason kept Easter at Ogvaldsnaes, there came an old man, of very shrewd discourse, one-eyed, of sombre look, and with a broad-brimmed hat, and how the next morning it appeared that the guest of the night before was the false Odin, in whom the heathens had so long believed, and whose tricks he now saw. And Odin thus represented may with equal certainty be declared to be the personified sky, with its single eye the sun. Where the Aryan myth-maker, says Mr. Tylor, takes no thought of the lesser light the moon, he can in various terms describe the sun as the eye of heaven. In the Rig-Veda it is the eye of Mitra, Varuna, and Agni. . . . In the Zend-Avesta it is the shining one with the swift horses, the eye of Ahura-Mazda, and Mithra, the lord of the region. To Hesiod it is the all-seeing eye of Zeus--vrara i and uv and ibi opQa. , u. 6g. Macrobius speaks of antiquity calling the sun the eye of Jove--Ti rjXioj o-jpuviog hp8au, and c. The old Germans, in calling the sun Woutans eye, recognized Wuotan, Woden, Odhin, as being himself the divine heaven. 24 And as the sun is ever and anon concealed from view by the clouds, Odin is r. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<